A similar case retrieval apparatus includes: a lesion portion acquirer that acquires partial images including lesion portion images, an image feature extractor that extracts image features of each of the plurality of partial images; a location information acquirer that acquires location information of each of the partial images; a lateral position determiner that determines the right organ or the left organ in which each of the lesion portions exists based on the location information; a unilateral distribution identifier that determines whether or not a distribution of the lesion portions is a unilateral distribution; and a similar case retriever that retrieves case data from a case database including both case data for the unilateral distribution in the right organ and case data for the unilateral distribution in the left organ when the unilateral distribution identifier identifies that the distribution of the lesion portions is the unilateral distribution.
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1. A method comprising: receiving a first image showing lesion portions distributed unilaterally in a right organ; and outputting a second image without reflecting the first image around a vertical axis, the second image being selected from case data including a set of third images, and each of the third images showing lesion portions distributed unilaterally in a left organ, wherein the case data does not include one or more fourth images showing lesion portions distributed unilaterally in one or more right organs, a first partial image is included in the first image and a second partial image is included in the second image, the first partial image and the second partial image having a predetermined similarity, and the first partial image is directly compared with the second partial image without the first partial image and the second partial image being reflected around the vertical axis.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined similarity of first partial image and the second partial image is based on a cosine distance between an image feature vector for the first partial image and an image feature vector for the second partial image, and calculating a sum of calculated cosine distances as the predetermined similarity.
3. An apparatus comprising: a receiver that receives a first image showing lesion portions distributed unilaterally in a right organ; and an output device that outputs a second image without reflecting the first image around a vertical axis, the second image being selected from case data including a set of third and each of the third images showing lesion portions distributed unilaterally in a left organ, wherein the case data does not include one or more fourth images showing lesion portions distributed unilaterally in one or more right organs, a first partial image is included in the first image and a second partial image is included in the second image, the first partial image and the second partial image having a predetermined similarity, and the first partial image is directly compared with the second partial image without the first partial image and the second partial image being reflected around the vertical axis.
4. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the predetermined similarity of first partial image and the second partial image is based on a cosine distance between an image feature vector for the first partial image and an image feature vector for the second partial image, and calculating a sum of calculated cosine distances as the predetermined similarity.
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